He turned to his patient and said: “Let’s go. “There was an initial ‘What was that?’” said Gannon Gill, a physician assistant who runs an orthopedic urgent care clinic. Patients and employees were already scrambling for cover.
Chief Franklin said Tulsa officers moved directly to where the gunman was believed to be, taking “immediate action without hesitation.” Police officers in Uvalde have been criticized for not moving more quickly to confront the gunman inside a school classroom. By 4:58, as officers made their way through a labyrinth of hallways and offices on the building’s second floor, they heard what they believe was the final shot, when the gunman killed himself. The call came from a patient who was meeting by video chat with a doctor inside the building when the doctor told the patient to ask for help.Ī few minutes later, the first Tulsa officers arrived at the scene. Shortly after that purchase, at 4:52 p.m., the police received their first call of a shooting on the campus of Saint Francis Hospital. The chief said he believed that the gunman had legally bought both his weapons - a pistol from a pawnshop on Sunday, and a semiautomatic rifle from a gun store in the hours before the shooting. Most Republican officials oppose tightening gun restrictions, and agreements even on incremental measures that polls show have bipartisan support have been elusive.Ĭhief Franklin said he would be willing to share his thoughts on gun restrictions if asked by legislators, but he said his role was to enforce the laws as written. But even as Republicans and Democrats in the Senate have been meeting in recent days to see if they can reach an agreement on legislation about guns, mental health and school safety, there is widespread skepticism that any sweeping deal will emerge. President Biden, a longtime supporter of stricter gun laws, addressed the country on Thursday night about the recent spate of shootings. What is new is now they have access to handguns and firearms that leave behind bodies instead of bruised egos.” “Kids have always gotten into scuffles with each other,” Mr. In Chattanooga, Tenn., where six teenagers were shot as a group fought last weekend, Mayor Tim Kelly called for expanding background checks and so-called red flag laws, as well as raising the minimum age to buy certain weapons. A 39-year-old woman died in that shooting. On Sunday, at a Memorial Day Weekend festival, eight people ranging in age from 9 to 56 were shot at the Old City Square of Taft, Okla., a small town about 40 miles from Tulsa. The Tulsa shooting was not even the first mass shooting in Oklahoma since the Uvalde massacre on May 24. Stephanie Husen, who practiced sports medicine Amanda Glenn, an office worker with a supervisory role and William Love, an Army veteran whose family said he sacrificed himself to save his wife. The authorities say the gunman also killed Dr. Phillips as a caring physician who sometimes ran late for his appointments because he spent extra time with his patients. Chief Franklin said the gunman had complained of continuing pain since being discharged from the hospital, and had returned for a follow-up visit the day before the attack.
Preston Phillips, who performed back surgery on him last month, as well as anyone who got in his way. Chief Franklin said the gunman, identified by officials as Michael Louis, had a letter with him explaining that he wanted to kill Dr.
Officials described the Tulsa shooting as targeted. As officers rushed inside - following a trail of bullet casings and yelling out “Tulsa police!” - they heard the gunshots end, officials said, then found that a man had killed four people and himself. In Tulsa, calls of the shooting at a medical building crackled across police radios just before 5 p.m. Tecklenburg recited statistics about mass shootings, most of which attract little national notice, and called for something to be done to stop them. “I’m angry about it,” Mayor John Tecklenburg of Charleston, S.C., said after 10 people were shot at an outdoor party in his city on Monday night. They were among more than 200 shootings this year in which at least four people were wounded or killed, an everyday reality that has plagued the country for years. Grief has emanated from other cities, including Uvalde, where 19 children and two teachers were killed, and Buffalo, where 10 people died at a grocery store in what the police described as a racist massacre. “Because we have seen the violence that has taken place throughout the United States, and we would be naïve” to think it would not happen in Tulsa. “I cannot emphasize enough that we train rigorously, over and over and over again, for not if but when,” he said.
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